John Bentley
Also Known As: not available
Biography: John Bentley was born on December 2, 1916 in Sparkhill, Birmingham, England. He was an actor, known for Calling Paul Temple (1948), Final Appointment (1954) and Salute the Toff (1952). He was married to Patricia Smith. He died on August 13, 2009 in Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sparkhill, Birmingham, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 02, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 13, 2009
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Dial 999
Overview: A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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The Big Frame
Overview: An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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Confession
Overview: A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Submarine Seahawk
Overview: For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. At first, the rest of the crew resent his distant manner and the way he keeps avoiding taking on the Japs.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Overview: Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-08
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Black Orchid
Overview: Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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River Beat
Overview: British diamond smugglers use the radiowoman (Phyllis Kirk) from a freighter docked on the Thames to unwittingly "mule" their swag, hidden in cigarettes, past customs, not knowing that she has befriended an Inspector for the Thames River Patrol.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-01
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The Singer Not the Song
Overview: A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-05
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Final Appointment
Overview: A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Sacred Waters
Overview: Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Tread Softly
Overview: Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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The Front
Overview: A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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Mary Had a Little...
Overview: A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-25
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Istanbul
Overview: A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-23
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Bait
Overview: John Bentley stars as a man who returns home to claim his inheritance. He soon learns his half brother has spent his fortune and is mixed up with jewel thieves
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-31
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Paul Temple Returns
Overview: A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-24
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She Shall Have Murder
Overview: A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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The Flaw
Overview: A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. But there's a flaw in the driver's plans.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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The Scarlet Spear
Overview: In colonial Kenya, chief's son believes he must kill another tribe's chief in ancient ritual before he can claim father's throne; district officer and female reporter try to stop him before he breaks colonial law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-01
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The Sinister Man
Overview: When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Stolen Assignment
Overview: Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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Calling Paul Temple
Overview: Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-29
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Paul Temple's Triumph
Overview: A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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The Woman's Angle
Overview: The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-12
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-20
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Golden Ivory
Overview: Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-03
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Men Against the Sun
Overview: An adventure story dealing with the building of a railway in Africa at the turn of the century.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-31
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Alice Through the Looking Box
Overview: A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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Salute the Toff
Overview: The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-02
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Torment
Overview: A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a perfect crime he intends to commit when an ex-convict visits them. They are both in love with their shared-stenographer-secretary.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-03
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Profile
Overview: The editor of a magazine falls in love with the publisher's daughter. The only trouble is that the publisher's wife quite fancies him as well. Then he's accused of embezzling funds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-16
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Flight from Vienna
Overview: A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-31
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-27
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Double Exposure
Overview: A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-01
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The Hills of Donegal
Overview: Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Hammer the Toff
Overview: A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Shadow of Treason
Overview: Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard come detective, giving him a list of names and a map she has inherited. Steve discovers that her father was blackmailing a group of traitors and the map locates money hidden in Somaliland with evidence of their guilt. Having contacted all the names, they leave for Africa taking Nadia in place of her father who is killed. Michael tries to persuade her to join him against the others and escapes when she refuses. Later, in the caves he re-appears and in the ensuing fight falls over a cliff edge after the money. Steve throws the incriminating document after him. Melodrama involving a treasure hunt and an old blackmail system during the war, which is cleared up by a bodyguard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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Escape in the Sun
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-07
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The Fur Collar
Overview: A reporter feigns death, in order to trap a fugitive and uncover a spy ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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Still of the Night
Overview: When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-19
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